A new storytelling medium

Where stories live.

Human-led storytelling brought to life with AI.

Lina Pauline & Kieran Prasch · Co-founders

Capsules are wonder-full containers for stories that deserve to be seen.

This is a capsule.

dive into this capsule

01

The Problem

We're pouring new capabilities into old containers.

Text, image, video, and sound can now be generated at unprecedented speed and scale.

But publishing formats haven't changed. Blog posts, PDFs, slide decks.

More content than ever, and more similar than ever.

02

The Solution

NYT Snowfall for the masses.

One click transforms writing into cinematic, scroll-driven, interactive experiences.

Write scenes. Generate visuals with AI. Publish immersive stories.

One link. No code. Embeds anywhere.

Scroll-Driven AI-Native Zero Code Embeddable Cinematic

One capsule, every surface

Desktop.

One capsule, every surface

Mobile.

One capsule, every surface

Social.

Kintsugi is the way to create true value in storytelling in 2026

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paste a link, the story unfurls

One capsule, every surface

Embed.

Embed code COPY

<iframe
  src="https://app.capsules.ink/lina/kintsugi"
  width="100%"
  height="640"
  style="border:0;border-radius:24px"
  allow="autoplay; fullscreen"
  loading="lazy"
  title="A capsule"
></iframe>

One container, every screen. A format that travels.

03

How It Works

From writing to interactive experience.

01

Write Scenes

Structure your story as scenes in the Capsule Launcher.

02

Generate Visuals

AI creates images and video matched to your narrative.

03

Publish

One click. Shareable link. Embeds in any website or bio.

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05

Use Cases

For people who have something to say and want it to be seen.

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Brand & Founder Stories

Origin stories, launches, campaigns that feel alive. The capsule does real work: fundraising, hiring, and first impressions.

✦

Personal Stories

Travel stories, memoirs, reflections turned cinematic. The writing leads. The visuals answer it.

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Research & Ideas

Dense ideas as interactive microsites people actually read. The hard parts, composition, pacing, and motion, are held by the format.

❋

Newsletters & Dispatches

Turn your best writing into shareable visual experiences that stand apart from every other email in the inbox.

✧

Non-Profits & Institutions

Impact stories, annual reports, donor communications that make people stop and stare.

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Product Launches

A new channel for announcements. Embeds in your site, bio, or newsletter. One link, total immersion.

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Case Study · Edge City Bhutan

We made it a capsule.

Timour Kosters' Edge City Bhutan essay, rebuilt end-to-end with our Creative Lab.

timour kosters

@timourxyz

This is super cool: a new product called Capsules that turns your essays into beautiful animated microsites. @capsulesink built this demo using my Bhutan essay. It feels less like a blog and more like a short film. 🇧🇹

56.6K Views 931 Likes 763 Bookmarks

06

In Their Words

What people say when they see one.

Writers, producers, filmmakers, and founders - on first contact with the format.

"

This is a new storytelling platform. It's the evolution of Substack, a new kind of storytelling primitive that creates a whole new category of creators.

Partner, Seed Fund

"

It's so engaging. It adds such depth to reading a written piece, and it doesn't feel like it takes over. It's additive without interfering with the reading.

Former Head of Content Strategy, Spotify

07

Business Model

SaaS + Studio. Two revenue paths.

Creator

$25 / mo

For writers shipping their first capsules.

AI credits included
Publish & embed
Shareable links
7-day money-back guarantee

Pro

$100 / mo

For creators and teams publishing often.

Unlimited capsules
Custom branding
Custom domain
More AI credits
Priority support

Creative Lab

$250 deposit

For the piece where the bar is high and the timing matters.

End-to-end production
Creative direction
Custom-tuned models
Site integration
Refundable deposit

Every plan includes AI credits, with credit packs available anytime you need more. Cancel anytime.

08

Traction

Become a founding creator · Summer 2026.

12 founding creators are already making capsules in early access. They bring drafts, finished pieces, and lifelong notebooks, and turn them into their first capsule.

In talks with

Lyft The Oaklandside KQED Heavyweight

Early partnership conversations span rideshare, local news, public radio, and award-winning audio. Creators and institutions who want their stories to live as capsules.

09

Vision · The Business

The go-to platform for stories.

A great divide has opened between AI and human-made writing. We're building the middle: storytelling tech where human-led work is brought to life with AI. The opportunity: own storytelling, and become the go-to platform for stories.

Now Creator profiles plus per-story tipping, shipped. Readers pay creators directly inside the capsule, and we take a cut of every tip.
Next The library becomes a marketplace: subscriptions, premium capsules, and discovery that turn one-time readers into recurring revenue.
Then The publishing standard for the post-AI web. Millions of capsules, each one a revenue event, each creator running a business.

10

Why We Built This

We made a medium for ideas worth keeping.

Capsules began with a simple belief: the form of an idea is part of the idea. We can generate text, image, and motion at almost no cost now, yet we still publish them in containers built for static pages. So we made a better one, to bring the magic of stories back to people.

"

It's 2026. We can do media in better, different, more interesting ways. This is a really interesting way to tell stories.

Anthropologist & Science Communicator

Have you seen the latest capsule?

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Become a founding creator · Summer 2026

Where stories live.

Lina · LinkedIn

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Capsules · LinkedIn